Simple Last.fm Scrobbler

I've been using this app reliably for YEARS, but after updating to the latest version, with all its weird changes, nothing works anymore. I don't know how many of these changes were forced by the recent Google Play app policy changes, but something needs to be done, because it is dreadfully bad, useless, buggy, and misleading now. All lifetime scrobble stats are gone, the account was signed out, nothing gets scrobbled, and no scrobbles remain in the cache to even get properly scrobbled at one point after they failed to be saved to my account. The most I get is a song put out to Last.fm as 'Now Playing' but that's it. After the song finishes playing, it doesn't stay scrobbled, but just changes the song listed as Now Playing. This is a major problem. The app doesn't work at all anymore and I've missed a ton of scrobbles because of this. I feel bad for all those who auto update their apps and don't even realize their plays aren't being scrobbled anymore, can't imagine how many scrobbled were lost from this. The logo change is a welcome update and a notable improvement, and the themes are good even though they are tedious to enable and compare. Plus there's all the weird behavior with the new sticky notification dropdown entry which is totally useless, and the weird permissions it requires now. I'm sideloading an older version I had backed up for the foreseeable future, and so far it works flawlessly. Responding for the dev: I had already tried experimenting with various scenarios and they all resulted in the same broken state. I tried with app notification disabled/enabled in settings, changing the notification priority, etc., but nothing helped.

After upgrade - random logouts, intrusive permissions (don't feed me with the github URLs, everything worked before upgrade), and what finally ended my patience - it scrobbled the whole album while I only listened to a few songs and then turned the player off. I'll go use some other app. UPD: Oh, and the empty notification that's always there also drives me crazy.

I've disabled the active notification in the app options, just as the devs have repeatedly instructed people to do, and it still leaves a permanent notification that I can't swipe away Scrobbled a random song by a random artist I've never heard of over 100 times, from "android music player apps", I don't know what this is but I only use two music players and this is neither of them, this happened over several weeks before I noticed. Might be the phone ringtone being scrobbled? I have no idea

Last update added an empty notification with "love" and "copy" buttons. Clicking it asks for random permissions, and skipping gives a nonsense message "Warning! Are you sure? - Warning will not Scrobble - Notification Listener". There is no explanation at all on the screen. This is in violation of the Android guide which requires permissions to be accompanied by an obvious reason for requesting them. Edit: updated to 1.6.7 as requested, no change. Still empty notification and nonsense messages.

I just wish the app didn't wait until 50% of the song before it could scrobble the song. Also, I know the app hasnt been updated since 2019 but I hope there is a feature where you can export the correction rules. Would come in handy when you change phones and you no longer have to type in the rules again. Would also be great of we could edit past scrobbles

The app works as intended. BUT! Every time the Devs update the app (which is quite regularly over the last few months), it loses my Last.fm credentials. Even worse, it doesn't notify me that it's stopped scrobbling, and so stops working until I notice and login again. Most other apps can retain login details when they update, so I'm not sure what the problem.is here.

This app used to work great, and true to its name it was simple. From what I can gather the unfortunate downfall of this app is due to changes with Android, and likely will be the case with other scrobblers too. Edit after tinkering and reading: Indeed Android changes are to blame, and all scrobblers are affected. I'll keep an eye out for the multiple scrobble bug, but so far I can continue to recommend this app. Unfortunately it seems to be a bad time for Android scrobblers.

This app stopped scrobbling for me out of the blue a month ago. Did everything I could to get it working again, then downloaded another scrobbler which told me to get it to work I needed to give the app permission to read notifications. I checked and that permission was disabled for Simple Scrobbler as well. Enabled it and everything works again. App could use an update notifying user to check this setting, but otherwise everything is fine.

UPDATED/EDIT Feb. 2021 STILL FAILED, I GOT A MUSIC APP WHICH WANTED THIS TO SCROBBLE. It fails to work scrobble. Garbage seems to be the only scrobbler that works with amazon music, great. except i never know when its working and always have to keep checking it to see if its doing anything. you have to open it up all the time and keeo checking. maybe it's a bug or maybe its my phone but id love it to work without checking it all the time

I edited my initial three star review because most of the complains that I had were dealt with on the new update. The biggest one that I had was that some songs would not scrobble with Google Play Music. The new update also brought the amazing scrobbling rules, but I still have a few complains before the experience is perfect. Rules only to work for individual songs and having just artist/album in a rule should edit all scrobbles for that album. There should be a way to auto clear complete scrob

I've had this for years thinking it was scrobbling my music, but it turns out I forgot to re-enter my credentials at some point. My fault obviously, though I suppose a notification that I'm not logged in to anything when I start listening would be nice. Since noticing this I've tried to log in to last.fm and always get a network error. 4G, different WiFi networks, all the same.

Has worked perfectly for me for nearly two years. Just installed the new update (1.6.1) which wiped all settings and credentials. Set everything back up and even went into Poweramp to make sure the "scobble via Simple LastFM" box was checked and nothing. Hasn't captured a single song all day....

Tried relogin and apps still not detected. v 1.6.7 does not scrobble. I reinstalled and logged in and it will not even detect any supported music apps anymore even as music is playing from PowerAMP. What is going on? This app was working fine until about two weeks ago and was seemingly fixed until about 9/16, when this new update saw all the previous issues return. Please fix!

the only last.fm scrobbler app that works perfectly 24/7! i have an update suggestion for the "correction rules" section: add a search tool and a backup option to easily import/export the rules to another phone. that would be 100% helpful. :)

Works very well. The only nit I have is that the initial setup is a bit clunky in that the app has to "recognize" apps as you play music in them, which sometimes takes a song to kick in. But that's quickly over and then everything seems to work just as expected.

It used to work nice and dandy, now I get stuck with a permanent notification, will update to say how much battery it drains as it's now always running, also "needs" to read all notifications we get. At the end, why tho? It used to work nicely, now it's mildly functional, but just after uninstalling and reinstalling. It was a solid 5 stars. Why u do dis to us?

Last update (1.6.7) comes with a bunch of problems, apart for what was already referenced here, the app creates an empty notification and doesn't go away when I try to kill the app as it drains a lot of battery, it's not scrobbling like it should, and scrobbles a bunch of songs I already listened on my PC on spotify just because it went to the spotify mobile cache

Here I thought I was doing it's thing for the last few months, just took a look and apparently stop scrobling and logged me out a week after setting it up, the last 3 months of scrobling into the void. Awesome. Glad I went out of my way to play my favorite albums on loop to for my algorithm .. 🙄

Worked Perfectly for years. Last week's update deleted all scrobbles in Cache and now nothing will scrobble. I now have to uninstall and try to find a different scrobbler. Too bad. This was a very easy and good app to use. If the developer would just give me back my old version than I would Scrobble in peace. Let me know when you get the bugs fixed.

Completely unusable after the last update. Takes a thousand attempts to detect music apps, drains loads of battery juice and keeps crashing if permanent notification is disabled. Used to work like a charm, there was no need to change it. Sorry, uninstalled.

I think the notification default box should be already ticked (it comes up under enabled apps). It was unclear it being unticked was causing nothing to be scrobbled. I wasted a lot of time, trying different options, and downloading other apps. Other boxes are pre ticked, that one should be too. Just let the first music player detected, by default be the notification default. People can change it after, of need be. Rather than leave it unticked to start with.